A Review of Semiotics in Advertising and Consumers’ Attitude in the Indonesian Consumer Market
- DOI
- 10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.40How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- semiotics in advertising, consumers’ attitude, Indonesian consumer market, global advertising, purchasing decisions
- Abstract
The English language is increasingly used in non-English speaking countries. This paper focuses on attitudes towards the use of English advertising in Indonesia with the aim to analyze the effect of using English to advertise products on Indonesian consumers. This paper reviews the findings of literature in marketing research. The purpose of advertisers’ use of English language is to appeal to consumers, to attract their attention and to stimulate them to learn more about advertised products. The findings proceed in the following manner that English as symbolic value is affecting the purchase intention because the use of English language in advertising is to improve the image of the product that associated with sophisticated and cosmopolitan products. The paper’s analysis has implications for advertising for middle class consumers in Indonesia. The impact of English as prestigious language associated with high status, modernity and sophistication can bring an effect to consumers’ attitudes to have good impressions about the products being advertised.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Vidyarini Dwita PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - A Review of Semiotics in Advertising and Consumers’ Attitude in the Indonesian Consumer Market BT - Proceedings of the First Padang International Conference On Economics Education, Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Entrepreneurship (PICEEBA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 299 EP - 303 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.40 DO - 10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.40 ID - Dwita2018/07 ER -